CO129-082 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [8-12] — Page 533

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authority alone the services of men of war to proceed in search of alleged Pirates - that nothing further was required of him than that he should sny he had received information of an act of piracy - and that with

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greater formality than this be should apply personally to the

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the place to which they should proceed, and there point out the

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Of the invaluable assistance afforded by the Ships and boats of the

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Poyal, stavy in the suppression of Princy in the China Seas it is quite impossible to speak too highly, and but for the great exertions of the Officers and Seamen employed on harrassing

must have

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suffered

this

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an extent

which will semcely be believer by

persons unacquainted with china in which almost every fishing

men who

village is the resort of live either partially or entirely by the Commission of piracy, and where town to the little Sumpan

ship or boat is employed in

every

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pirncy whenever opportunity presents itself. Bu